guitarra
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,252
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
guitarra is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento músico de cuerda, que se compone de una caja de madera, a modo de óvalo estrechado por el medio, con un agujero circular en el centro de la tapa y un mástil con trastes. Seis clavijas c... Pronounced [giˈt̪ara]. It ranks #4,252 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with gustará and gustaría.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guitarra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [giˈt̪ara] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for guitarra is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [giˈt̪ara]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,252 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for guitarra, with forms such as "gguitarra", "giutarra", and "guiatrra". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "gustará", "gustaría", "guitarras", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is guitarra, spelled G-U-I-T-A-R-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento músico de cuerda, que se compone de una caja de madera, a modo de óvalo estrechado por el medio, con un agujero circular en el centro de la tapa y un mástil con trastes. Seis clavijas colocadas en el extremo de este mástil sirven para templar otras tantas cuerdas aseguradas en un puente fijo en la parte inferior de la tapa, que se pulsan con los dedos de la mano derecha mientras las pisan los de la izquierda donde conviene al tono.
- 2Variante poco usada de guitarrista.
- 3Variante poco usada de guitarreada.
- 4Variante poco usada de guitarrero.
- 5Aparejo formado por dos motones de briol, que sirve para desmultiplicar el esfuerzo que se realiza con el cabo.
- 6(Callionymus lyra) Dragoncillo.
- 7(Rhinobatidae) Raya.
- 8(Squatina squatina) Angelote.
- 9Instrumento para quebrantar y moler el yeso hasta reducirlo a polvo: se compone de una tabla gruesa, de unos cuatro decímetros en cuadro, y un mango ajustado en el centro casi perpendicularmente.
- 10(Dalbergia hecastophyllum) Péndola.
- 11Traje de fiesta.
- 12Bebé de pecho.
- 13Persona muy raquítica o tendinosa.
- 14Dinero.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gguitarra,giutarra,guiatrra,guitara,guitarar,guitrara,guittarra,gutiarra,ugitarra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for guitarra
Misspelling Variants of "guitarra"
Frequency rank: #4,252 in Spanish
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